Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority Act 2008

to abolish the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority (AOTDTA) Advisory Council; and establish the Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Board to govern the AOTDTA.

to reduce the licence fees payable by commercial television broadcasting and commercial radio licensees by 25 per cent per annum; and the Radio Licence Fees Act 1964 to include a regulation making power to enable radio licence fee rebates.

to establish a minimum repayment threshold for HELP debts of two per cent when a person’s income reaches $51 957 in the 2018-19 financial year; and replace the Higher Education Grants Index with the consumer price index for the purposes of indexing all grants and regulated student contribution amounts; the

Higher Education Support Act 2003

and

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to discontinue the HECS-HELP benefit from 1 July 2017; the

Social Security Act 1991

,

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

,

Farm Household Support Act 2014

and

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to discontinue the job commitment bonus; the

Australian Renewable Energy Agency Act 2011

to reduce the agency’s available appropriation; the

Private Health Insurance Act 2007

to pause the income thresholds for the Medicare levy surcharge and the government rebate on private health insurance for a further three years from 1 July 2018; the

National Health Reform Act 2011

to abolish the National Health Performance Authority; the

Aged Care Act 1997

to: increase the secretary’s compliance powers in relation to reviews of care recipient appraisals submitted by aged care providers to receive Commonwealth subsidies; abolish adviser and administrator panel arrangements; and require approved providers to notify the secretary of certain changes to any of its key personnel in certain circumstances; the

Age Discrimination Act 2004

,

Dental Benefits Act 2008

and

Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973

to close the Child Dental Benefits Schedule from 31 December 2016 and establish the Child and Adult Public Dental Scheme from 1 January 2017; the

to remove the exemption from the 104 week newly arrived resident’s waiting period for new migrants who are family members of Australian citizens or long-term permanent residents; the

Social Security Act 1991

,

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

and

Student Assistance Act 1973

to cease the student start-up scholarship payment from 1 July 2017; five Acts to apply an interest charge to outstanding debts owed by former recipients of social welfare payments who have failed to enter into, or have not complied with, an acceptable repayment arrangement; five Acts to enable the making of departure prohibition orders to prevent certain social welfare debtors from leaving the country; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

,

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

,

Social Security Act 1991

and

Student Assistance Act 1973

to remove the six-year limit on welfare debt recovery; the

Social Security Act 1991

and

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

to provide that parental leave payments and dad and partner pay payments are included in the income test for income support payments; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

,

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

and

Social Security Act 1991

to change the way fringe benefits are treated under the income tests for family assistance and youth income support payments and for related purposes; the

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

to align carer allowance and carer payment start day provisions; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

and

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

to pause indexation for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A, the primary earner income limit for FTB Part B and the Paid Parental Leave income limit for a further three years from 1 July 2017;

Social Security Act 1991

and

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

to remove the pension income and assets test exemptions currently available to pensioners in aged care who rent out their former home and pay their aged care accommodation costs by periodic payments; the

A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

and

Social Security Act 1991

to remove the exemption from the income test for FTB Part A recipients and the exemption from the parental income test for certain dependent young people receiving youth allowance and ABSTUDY living allowance; the

Social Security Act 1991

to provide that certain persons cannot be paid social security payments when they are in psychiatric confinement because they have been charged with a serious offence; six Acts to prevent new recipients of welfare payments or concession cards from being paid the energy supplement from 20 March 2017; the

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to reduce the refundable and non-refundable rates of the tax offset available under the research and development tax incentive for the first $100 million of eligible expenditure; six Acts to require larger entities to provide payroll and superannuation information at the time it is created through the single touch payroll reporting framework; and the

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

to create a single appeal path for the review of original determinations made by the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission.

to ensure that auditors registered from 1 December 2005 on the basis of the CPA/ICAA competency standard, as approved by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on 24 November 2004, are validly registered with effect from the date of their purported registration.

to: enable the receipt of funds from terrorist organisations for legal assistance in certain circumstances; enable control orders to be imposed on persons from 14 years of age; impose an obligation on a person subject to a requirement to wear a tracking device to maintain the tracking device in good operational order and create offences for interfering with the operation of a tracking device; authorise the Australian Federal Police to ensure that the tracking device remains operational and to enter premises to install equipment necessary for the operation of the tracking device; remove the authority of the Family Court of Australia to issue control orders and preventative detention orders (PDOs); clarify the meaning of ‘imminence’ for the purposes of obtaining a PDO; and create a new offence prohibiting conduct advocating genocide;

Crimes Act 1914

,

Criminal Code Act 1995

,

Surveillance Devices Act 2004

and

Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

to establish regimes to monitor the compliance of individuals subject to a control order through search warrants, surveillance device warrants and telecommunications interception warrants;

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation Act 1979

to enable the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to furnish security assessments directly to states and territories; and provide that unauthorised disclosures of information by members of the community, except those who are entrusted persons, only constitute an offence if the information endangers the health or safety of a person or prejudices the effective conduct of a special intelligence operation;

Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Act 1995

to broaden the range of conduct that may be considered as advocating the doing of a terrorist act;

Crimes Act 1914

to clarify the threshold requirements for the issue of a delayed notification search warrant;

to: broaden protections for national security information in control order proceedings; provide for a special advocate to represent the interests of people subject to control order proceedings who have been excluded from parts of a proceeding; enable a court to make an order that is inconsistent with regulations made under the Act if the Attorney-General has applied for the order; and enable the regulations to continue to apply to the extent they provide for ways of dealing with national security information in criminal and civil proceedings;

to establish a scheme for the continuing detention of high risk terrorist offenders who are considered by a judge in civil proceedings to present an unacceptable risk to the community at the conclusion of their custodial sentence; and the proposed

Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (2017 Harmonized System Changes) Bill 2016, the bill amends the

Customs Act 1901

to implement changes resulting from the fifth review of the International Convention on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System; and maintain the collection of appropriate import duties for biofuels and biofuel blends imported under the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement.